I ordered some new business cards for the big festival this weekend. My old ones didn’t mention my Missouri SEO website, and I kinda want to start promoting that more than the hosting one.
What do you think, too girly?
September, 2008
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Got Me Some New Biz Cards
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008Saint Louis SEO Meetup
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008Hey St Louis – Anyone interested in starting a Meetup group in Saint Louis for SEO gurus? Currently there isn’t one.
Bloggers Need to (at least) Understand SEO
Friday, September 12th, 2008Tonight I had the pleasure of speaking with Jaelithe Judy, the writer who will be moderating the upcoming SEO panel that I’ll be sitting on (along with Ellen Gooch) next week. She has great charisma and I can tell this is going to be a fun session. Since we are expecting a crowd of mostly personal, professional and corporate bloggers, the session will focus around that audience. Without giving away all the topics we’ll discuss, here is a “10,000ft view” of what is to come.
- How understanding SEO basics can increase your readership numbers
- Why sploggers want to steal your content (and how it can affect your bottom line)
- Why businesses are hiring full-time bloggers
- What the long tail is (and how knowing what it is can increase your blogs revenue)
- Some of the latest changes Google has made and how they can affect your rankings
Oh, we’ve got lots more, including a nice list of resources that will help our audience get more traffic, more effectively promote their blog, or make more money from their website. And we’ll be taking questions from the audience!
The panel will be just one of many Interactive sessions to attend this week in St. Louis at the Play:StL festival. Some of the other sessions (some of which sound pretty cool to me) include Cyberbullying, Business and Social Media, and even one on the dreaded CSS (yukk!)
Get a wristband for the festival at a host of local places, and half your money will go to LiveFeed. If you come the SEO panel, please take a moment to introduce yourself, I’d love to meet you!
SEO Millionaires
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008I watch a lot of CNBC. I’m not in to the whole financial scene, nor am I into stocks. But I do love to watch those shows about rich people, how they live, and most importantly how they got rich.
I read a lot, too. I’ve read all the ‘Rich Dad’ books, even bought one for my son. I’ve read Tim Ferris’ 4 Hour Workweek (loved it) and many more. Now I’m reading a great book called The Millionaire Next Door.
You could say I’m obsessed with being rich.
But I don’t think I am. I do think that money is an awesome tool, and there are plenty of people out there who could use more, me included. I’m not a believer in lotteries or unexpected windfalls. Sure, that’d be nice, but I’d prefer to earn it myself.
(There’s a saying in the custom auto industry – build it or buy it. I prefer build it. A little old fashioned hard work never hurt anyone.)
Anyway, I pay attention to how these people make their money. The guy on Untold Wealth: The Rise of the Super Rich made his money doing what he loved: mortgages. There’s another guy on there who is in to leveraged buyouts of undervalued companies. Most of these guys grew up in an average middle-class family, started working in an industry that interested them, and soon thereafter started their own companies doing the same thing.
It’s no secret that you’ll most likely never get ‘rich’ working for someone else. Most all millionaires in the US are self-made, and they did it by starting their own company. So I guess I’m on the right track.
Can an SEO firm make a millionaire? I don’t know, but I’ll let you know 
